INOUYE, Daniel Ken, a Senator and a Representative from Hawaii; born in Honolulu,
Hawaii, September 7, 1924; attended the public schools of Honolulu; during the
Second World War volunteered as a private in 1943 and retired after much action
as a captain in 1947; belatedly received the Congressional Medal of Honor on
June 21, 2000, for heroism in battle during Second World War; graduated,
University of Hawaii 1950 and George Washington University Law School 1952;
admitted to the bar in 1953 and commenced practice in Honolulu; assistant
public prosecutor in Honolulu 1953-1954; majority leader in the Territorial
house of representatives 1954-1958; member of the Territorial senate 1958-1959;
upon the admission of Hawaii into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-sixth Congress for the term commencing August 21, 1959; reelected to the
Eighty-seventh Congress and served until January 3, 1963; was not a candidate
for renomination to the House of Representatives in 1962, but was elected to
the United States Senate in 1962; reelected in 1968, 1974, 1980, 1986, 1992,
1998, 2004 and again in 2010 for the term ending January 3, 2017; president pro
tempore (June 28, 2010-December 17, 2012); chair, Select Committee on
Intelligence (Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses), Committee on Indian
Affairs (One Hundredth to One Hundred Third Congresses; One Hundred Seventh
Congress [January 3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003]), Select Committee
on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (One
Hundredth Congress), Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (One
Hundred Tenth Congress), Committee on Appropriations (One Hundred Eleventh and
One Hundred Twelfth Congresses); died December 17, 2012; interment in the
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii; posthumously
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 20, 2013.